Geoff Mulgan Quotes - Page 3

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• Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.

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  Clever, Thinking, Would Be

  "Experts and experimental government" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Thinking, Tanks, I Can

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• Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.

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  Research And Development, Medical, Reason

  "Health concentrates on achieving more cures for less outlay" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2012.

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• Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.

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  War, Groups, World

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2006.

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• Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.

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  Healthcare, Bangalore, Centre

  "Our creative minds need to be harnessed" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2008.

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• By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children.

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  Children, Party, Community

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• Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

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  Fun, Discipline, Covering

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• Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.

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  Ideas, Design, Innovation

  "Happiness – and How to Find It". www.theguardian.com. April 03, 2011.

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• Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

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  Passion, Democracy, Needs

  Geoff Mulgan (2006). “Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government”

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• Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

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  Taxation, Body, Coercion

  Geoff Mulgan (2006). “Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government”

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• On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.

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  Thinking, Upset, Environmental

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• Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we'll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own.

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  Technology, Ideas, People

  "Is crowd-sourcing the answer to restoring trust in government?". Interview with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. November 29, 2012.

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• In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.

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  Party, Capitalist Economy, Political

  Geoff Mulgan (2015). “The Locust and the Bee: Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future”, p.4, Princeton University Press

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• Even many of the teenagers who feel confident on navigating the web simply don't have the skills needed to 'write and create' digital tools, not simply consume them.

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  Teenager, Writing, Skills

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• There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people.

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  Integrity, Commitment, People

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• It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.

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  Taken, Heart, Mean

  "Civil engineering" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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